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Biography

Sylvio Giardina is acreative person with a dual identity, happily involved both in fashion - as ahaute couture designer - and in art - as a visual artist.In January 2011 he created the brand “sylvio giardina”.Thesearch for a new silhouette is the philosophy of his work. The classic shapesof the body are eliminated to create other, new.While doing a lot of experimentation, he never loses sight of the main functionthat the clothes have to play to be wearable clothes, this is the startingpoint and meeting to find a balance between creativity and production.For Sylvio Giardina art is the inspiration, the fashion the instrument; theseare not separate entities, but complementary and indispensable to one another,they do contaminate continuously without that he can distinguish between them theconfines.

Designer

Sylvio Giardina

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SylvioGiardinawas bornin Paris buthis roots are Sicilian. Aftergraduating from Accademia di Costume e di Moda, the renowned Rome’s fashioninstitute, he begins working at the FernandaGattinoni maison, where side by side with the legendary couturier he learnshow to plan and design an Haute Couture collection. Sylvio was oneof the founders of the Grimaldi Giardina brand and after 12 years, he embarkedupon a new fashion adventure with his eponymous brand “sylvio giardina”.Tailoring, tradition, innovation, a never-ending andversatile research/experimentation and a strategy of lines in which the matterelements – textures, structures and embellishments – blend, merge and overlap. These represent the brand’sfoundations, prompting an open dialogue and communication with visual arts,another leitmotiv distinguishing the brand’s collections. The research focuses on celebrating the femininesilhouette and its shapes in a sartorial-chic guise, as much as on designingunusual and edgy styles conveying a different elegance, which blends hautecouture’s exclusivity, details and tailoring with prêt-a-porter’s wearability, thus creating a demi-couture product. For Sylvio Giardina, art is the inspiration, fashionthe means; they are not separated but they complement each other, by constantlycontaminating each other, thus blurring their boundaries. Made-in-Italy represents a beautiful, well-doneproduct, a kind of alchemy conveyed by the flair of the design and theexcellence of the craftsmanship, which is often the result of artisanal skillsonly found in Italy.

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Sylvio Giardina is acreative person with a dual identity, happily involved both in fashion - as ahaute couture designer - and in art - as a visual artist.In January 2011 he created the brand “sylvio giardina”.Thesearch for a new silhouette is the philosophy of his work. The classic shapesof the body are eliminated to create other, new.While doing a lot of experimentation, he never loses sight of the main functionthat the clothes have to play to be wearable clothes, this is the startingpoint and meeting to find a balance between creativity and production.For Sylvio Giardina art is the inspiration, the fashion the instrument; theseare not separate entities, but complementary and indispensable to one another,they do contaminate continuously without that he can distinguish between them theconfines.